Improvement in stove-pipe shelves



H. S. KRATZ. Stove-Pipe Shelf.

No. 223,150. Patented Dec. 30,1879.

WITNESSES M7 W M? ATTORNEYS,

NYPETERS, FKOTKLLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

HENRY S. KRATZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-PIPE SHEL VES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,150, dated December30,1879; application filed June 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, HENRY S. KRATZ, ofChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and Improved Stove-Pipe Shelf; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved shelf forattachment to stovepipes for the purpose of supporting culinary vessels,dishes, clothes, or other things requiring to be kept warm or dried.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts ashereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,Figure 1. is a plan view of the pipe shelf or collar, with a shelfproper and towel-rack attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal verticalsection of the shelf on line mm, Fig. 1, showing also two of itsdetachable appendages in the inclined or vertical position they assumewhen not in use. Fig. 3 is a side view of the pipe shelf or collarhaving a dish-shelf suspended in vertical position. Fig. 4 is a detailsection on line 3 3 Fig. 1.

The bracket or collar is constructed in two parts, A A, whose innersides have a semicircular shape, so that when placed together they willfit closely around the body of a stove-pipe which has the requireddiameter.

The parts A A are secured together and clamped firmly around thestove-pipe, so as to be self-supporting, at any desired height from thestove by means of bolts or screws O, which pass through the lugs b thatproject laterally from the ends of the parts A A, and are perforatedtransversely, as shown.

Each partAof the bracket has twohorizontal flanges, cl 0. The flange clprojects in a different vertical plane from the other, e, and is alsonarrower. Thelowerflanges, e e, are separated from the body A of thecollar for a portion of their length, thus forming openings f, and theyare of such form that the outline of the bracket as a whole isapproximately that of an oblong rectangle. Each rounded corner of thelower flange, 6, has a series of holes,

g, and the upper flange, d, has a socket, h, in its under side.

The open-work or skeleton shelves D have upwardly-projecting pintles ion their inner ends, Fig. 4. When the shelves are placed in horizontalposition, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, for supporting dishes or otherarticles, these pintles i enter the sockets h, and thus preventaccidental detachment of the shelves. The support of the-latter in suchposition is obviously due to the leverage between the flanges d and 0,there being a downward pressure upon flange e and an upward pressureagainst flange (1.

Four shelves, D, may be supported by the bracket at the same time, onebeing placed at each corner thereof; but in practice I design the set'tobe furnished to purchasers with three shelves and one towel-rack orclothes bar holder E. The latter consists of a trian' gular plate havingsockets for reception of radiating bars for supporting clothes.

When the shelves and clothes-bar holder are not in use they may bechanged to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so as to occupy lessspace radially to the collar A. In such case the shelves D are supportedvertically by means of their central points, I, which enter the holes 9in the angle of the lower flange, 6, while the holder E is inserted inone of the openings f between the flanges.

I do not claim a stovepipe collar having two parallel horizontal flangesfor supporting detachable shelves; nor do I claim, broadly, providingone of such flanges with a recess to receive a stud fixed to the shelf;but

What I claim is- The combination of the collar having the flange 0,provided with holes, as specified, and the shelves D, having the centralopenings and provided with the points I, as shown and described, wherebysaid shelves are adapted to be attached to and supported vertically onsaid collar-flange when not required for use.

HENRY STOVER KRATZ.

Witnesses W. R. MCLAURY, FRED M. GEARY.

